Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 792dce901eb43e72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:08:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 986bb6a1d4e2fb26131c060ac1ebd369 SHA-1: ef0d2cc6d68e8def90bbd33e07fe6dc5f06566b8 SHA-256: 792dce901eb43e728f62659a5a24f826f66b103cd7037091ff58e54a459648ce
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one prominent link directing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for free software, specifically 'Coreldraw free full version'. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to attract traffic, with the primary malicious link being the entry point.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=coreldraw++free+full+version
    • http://files.rjandluke.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606758/tovawapuxij.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0818/0895/files/organic_chemistry_loudon_6th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6241/8846/files/pitubaxapujosilufewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0702/5056/files/79985284376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6560/6301/files/analisis_y_diseo_de_sistemas_de_informacion_james_senn.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2136/8482/files/mutajavavasemenusodog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0609/9605/files/miguzopetidifil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8815/0690/files/91819004543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3504/1702/files/14030981430.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1164/files/push_new_branch_to_github.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006909.bin
7438e7ddfcd52030816a6f2ec9a4e043636c82f34ebf6ed0bf3ff43e90ebfd86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6909 4956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a09.bin
8b6ebd672cf5b48f2592c2611f594d787a19829653646689a40a55e470441b20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A09 10912 bytes